I try my best not to be too terribly sentimental about things. I understand that, no matter how much we might try to stop it from happening, everything changes. I know, eventually, everything wonderful and meaningful is destroyed and replaced. As I’ve discussed here before, though, there are certain things I find it difficult to […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Atlanta, CBGB, commoditization, David Spivey, East Village, East Village Grieve, Hilly Kristal, New Jersey, Nordstrom, popular culture, punk, Ramones, Stereogum, Stiv Bators, Talking Heads, television, The Patti Smith Group |
I have very few regrets in life. One of the biggest is not pursuing an interview with writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert more aggressively. (He finds himself in the distinguished company on Don Knotts and Joey Ramone in that regard.) If you haven’t heard, Ebert passed away today at […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1950s, 1983, another famous person has died, atheism, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Bob and Ray, Buck Coulson, cancer, Death, Don Knotts, famous people who published zines, fandom, Gene Siskel, Harlan Ellison, Harvey Kurtzman, Humanism, Joey Ramone, Juanita Coulson, Kate Moss, Kurt Vonnegut, legacies, Lenny Bruce, life after death, memes, MidWestCon, Mort Sahl, on facing death, people who we know from television, religion, Richard Dawkins, Roger Ebert, Russ Meyer, science fiction, self-publishing, so it goes, Stan Freberg, Star Wars, Stymie, Xero, Yandro, zine pioneers, zines |
By Mark | August 18, 2010
Occasionally, as a public service, I like to reprint something here from Facebook, for all the folks that I can’t bring myself to “friend.” So, any thoughts? Am I alone in thinking that the folks who gathered here in Ann Arbor for Punk Week weren’t really punks, at least in the classic sense? And I […]
By Mark | January 6, 2010
I’m trying my damndest to get worked up over this sweatshirt designed by Arab-American kids in the class of 2011 at Dearborn’s Edsel Ford High School, but I’m just not feeling it. Then again, it didn’t really bother me all that much when Ron Asheton and the Sex Pistols used to dress up like Nazis, […]
Posted in Media, Michigan, Observations, Other | Also tagged 9/11, Arab Americans, Berlin Wall, Christians under attack, Dearborn, Edsel Ford High School, fashion, Nazi, not so awesome t-shirt ideas, Ron Asheton, Sharia law, Twin Towers |
By Mark | August 23, 2009
A few days ago, I posted something here on the site about the clandestine shopping cart race that takes place in Ann Arbor every August, at the end of Punk Week. Well, after posting the story, I began hearing from people in Ann Arbor who wanted me to know why they were against the races. […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Mark's Life | Also tagged Bill Grundy, cardboard carcass, dirty rotter, disturbing the peace, flyers, kids today, littering, posts where Mark comes across as an uncool douche, preachy bullshit, Punk Week, punks, Shopping, shopping carts made to look like sharks, stickers, strategy, taggers, the man |
